{"id":6906,"count":3,"description":"Laurens is a city in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 9,916 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Laurens County.\nLocated in the western part of South Carolina, it is named after Henry Laurens of Revolutionary War fame. It is part of the Greenville\u2013Mauldin\u2013Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nOriginal maps indicate the town may have originally been called Laurensville. The earliest known reference to the name Laurens is a town charter in 1873.\nLaurens and Laurens County is part of the Old 96 District, which also includes Abbeville County, Greenwood County, McCormick County, and Edgefield County.\nThe textile, manufacturing, and glass industry was at one point a major source of employment; however, most have closed over the last 30 years, which has significantly hurt the city and its economic conditions. Today, there are no manufacturing plants in the city limits. The unemployment rate, as of July 2011, sat at 12%. Walmart operates a distribution...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/laurens\/","name":"Laurens","slug":"laurens","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/6906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=6906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}